Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes

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• I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class,…
• I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial…
• I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
• The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war…
• I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started…
• I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.
• The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in…
• The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

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